Euphorbia clavarioides
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Euphorbia clavarioides is a species of the genus Spurge ( Euphorbia ) in the family of the Spurge Family(Euphorbiaceae).
description
The succulent Euphorbia clavarioides forms small shrubs up to 7.5 centimeters in height. A short, subterranean shoot is formed from a fleshy root, which branches out several times and also branches further above the ground. This creates a compact and rounded mat up to 30 centimeters in diameter. The individual shoots are up to 5 inches long and 1.7 inches wide. The branches are patterned by rounded warts that are up to 4 millimeters in diameter. The egg-shaped leaves are short-lived and are up to 2 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide.
The inflorescence consists of individual cyathia that appear at the tips of the branches and grow up to 6 millimeters in size. The elongated nectar glands are either entire or provided with about six appendages that are up to 0.5 millimeters long. The bluntly lobed fruit is about 8 millimeters large and sitting. It contains the almost spherical seed, which is 3.5 millimeters in size and is covered with very small warts.
Distribution and systematics
Euphorbia clavarioides is common in South Africa and Lesotho .
The species was first described in 1860 by Pierre Edmond Boissier .
A distinction is made between the following varieties:
- Euphorbia clavarioides var. Clavarioides : Syn . : Euphorbia basutica Marloth (1909); Distribution: in western South Africa and Lesotho
- Euphorbia clavarioides var. Truncata (NEBr.) ACWhite & al. (1941): Syn .: Euphorbia truncata N.E.Br. (1915); Distribution: in the South African provinces of Northern Cape , Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal , Gauteng , Mpumalanga ; In contrast to the trunk species, the branching is not as intensive, rather flat or more convex mats are formed, the inner twigs are up to 8 centimeters long and the twigs on the outside of the plant up to 7 centimeters long
swell
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 130 .
